Bale-tie



(No Model.)

L. WILLIAMS.

BALE TIE.

Patented Mar. 18, 1884.

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LEWIS WILLIAMS, OF JOHNSTOVVN, PENXSYLVANIA.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,319, dated March 18, 1884:,

Application filed January 30, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS Wrrunns, of Johnstown, in the county of Cainbria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Bale-Ties, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying sheet of drawings, constitutes a specification.

The device constituting the subject-matter of this invention is designed to be used as a fastening'in cases where wire is employed in baling hay, cotton, rags, and analogous articles; and it consists of asingle link of peculiar form or construction,which constitutes the only ap liance whereby the opposing ends of the ba ing-wire are united and confined.

The nature of the invention is fully exemplified in the drawings, in which different modifications of the binding-link are shown in Figs. 1, at, and 5, and its application and mode of use are seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

I preferably make the binding-link of wire, as seen in Fig. 1, although it may be struck up from plate metal, as in Fig. 4, or cast solid, as in Fig. 5. All these different styles embody the same essentials, which are a relatively long or oblong loop or eye, 0, formed at one end of thelink, and a substantially circular transverse perforation, loop, or eye, a, at the other end, said eyes being so arranged that the axis oftheir openings shall be transverse to each other.

The link shown in Fig. 1 may be made by bending the opposite ends of ashort piece of wire around at right angles, but in opposite directions, so as to form the lips I) and d, and

then bending or reflecting one end of the wire backwardly until lip 22 rests across the main body of the wire, after which the opposite end of the wire is bent inwardly over lip 12 at or near its end, so that lip (1 may rest upon the body of the wire a little back of the angle formed by bending lip b, as seen in the figure.

This manipulation of the wire will thus form a long loop, 0, and the included interval between lips b and (i will constitute a substantially circular or closed round eye or loop large enough to freely admit the insertion of the end of the baling-wire, as will be hereinafter more fully described. It will be seen that the axis of eye a is practically parallel with the plane of loop c,- r, in other words, the axes of the eye and loop are transverse with each I other. The two lips I) and d are arranged, as shown, so as to favor bending theinserted end of the baling-wire across one of them as a fulcruin without distorting or straightening out the link.'

The eyes a c and loops 0 0 shown in Figs. 4 and 5 present like characteristics and are used in precisely the same way as theeye'and loop seen in Fig. l, and therefore I make no further description of them.

My improved link is used as follows: While the pressed bale of material is still in the press, the binding-wires lying in position for their ends to be seized, one end of the band-as, for instan cc B-is passed through loop c,bent back, and twisted about the body of the main wire, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. Link A is then doubled back, as shown in Fig. 2, and while in this position the other end of the wire band C is brought around, and its end e is passed through loop 0, eye a, and also through loop 9, the several parts thus being in positions shown in Fig. 2. At this stage the protruding end 6 is bent backwardly across lip (I over to about a right angle, or as shown by the dotted lines. At this point pressure on the bale is. removed, when the expansive strain of the bound material causes the opposed ends of the band to recede from each other, and this separation causes link A to turn over or change ends, which operation results in causing the end 6 to be again bent athwart lip b of the link A, so as to become cranked, as shown in Fig. 3, the end of the band 6 being held or confined in loop By the foregoing described means the end 6 of the wire band is cranked when it passes through eye a, and is prevented from being bent around, so it can be withdrawn through said eye byconfineinent in loop 9 in such a way that no ordinary strain brought to bear on the band can so loosen the tie as to effect a rupture thereof, or such a weakening as to lead to its separation.

I claim as my invention- 1. The described bale-tie, consisting of a link having one end formed as an oblong open loop for receiving and retaining one end of the baling-wire, and the opposite end thereof provided with an eye, of which the, axis is substantially parallel with the plane of the said oblong loop, but lies transversely therewith, the walls of said eye constituting abutments or shoulders over which the other inserted end of the baling-wire is bent or cranked, substantially in the manner described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. A link for uniting and fastening the ends of wire bale-bands, having the described loop and eye, relatively arranged and disposed substantially as shown, made from wire bent into the form described, substantially as specified.

3. The method shown of fastening the ends of a wire bale-baud, which consists in connecting one end of the band by means of a loop with the loop end of the described connectinglink, doubling said connecting-link back upon the loop of the band, inserting the other end of the band endwise through the loop end of the con necting-link,then th rou gh the eye thereof, and also through the loop at the other end of the bale-band, substantially as shown, and bending the protruding end of the wire so inserted back to about a right angle, as described, and finally distending the band, so as to cause the said connectinglink to turn over or reverse its position endwise, whereby said inserted end of the bale-wire is cranked, in the manner described, and for the purposes set forth.

4. The described bale-tie, consisting of. a wire bale-band having one end thereof connected by a loop with. the loop end of the de scribed connecting-link, and its other end passed through the eye of said link and confined within the loop at the opposite end of the band, said band-wire being cranked or bent at a transverse angle upon itself at the point where it traverses the eye of the connect ing-link, substantially as described and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub scribed my name, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, this 15th day of January, A. D. 1884.

LEWIS XVILLIAMS. In presence of JNO. L. ROYER, G. W. MAPLEDORANE. 

